King John
PRINCE HENRY -- his son, afterwards KING HENRY III
ARTHUR -- Duke of Bretagne, son to GEFFREY, late Duke of Bretagne, the elder brother to KING JOHN
WILLIAM MARESHALL -- Earl of Pembroke
GEFFREY FITZ-PETER -- Earl of Essex, Chief justiciary of England
WILLIAM LONGSWORD -- Earl of Salisbury
ROBERT BIGOT -- Earl of Norfolk
HUBERT DE BURGH -- chamberlain to the KING
ROBERT FALCONBRIDGE -- son to SIR ROBERT FALCONBRIDGE
PHILIP FALCONBRIDGE -- his half-brother, bastard son to KING RICHARD I
JAMES GURNEY -- servant to LADY FALCONBRIDGE
PETER OF POMFRET -- a prophet
PHILIP -- King of France
LOUIS -- the dauphin
ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA
CARDINAL PANDULPH -- the Pope's legate
MELUN -- a French lord
CHATILLON -- ambassador from France to KING JOHN
ELINOR -- widow of KING HENRY II, and mother to KING JOHN
CONSTANCE -- mother to ARTHUR
BLANCH -- daughter to ALPHONSO, king of Castile, and niece to KING JOHN
LADY FALCONBRIDGE -- mother to BASTARD and ROBERT FALCONBRIDGE
Lords, citizens of Angiers, sheriff, heralds, officers, soldiers, messengers, and other attendants
PLAY
Sometimes in England; and sometimes in France.
ACT I
Scene i: Northampton. A room of state in the palace.
ACT II
Scene i: France. Before the walls of Angiers.
ACT III
Scene i: France. The French king's tent.
Scene ii: The same. Plains near Angiers.
Scene iii: The same.
Scene iv: The same. The French king's tent.
ACT IV
Scene i: Northampton. A room in the castle.
Scene ii: The same. A room of state in the palace.
Scene iii: The same. Before the castle.
ACT V
Scene i: Northampton. A room in the castle.
Scene ii: Near St. Edmund's-Bury. The French camp.
Scene iii: The same. A field of battle.
Scene iv: The same. Another part of the same.
Scene v: The same. The French camp.
Scene vi: An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.
Scene vii: The orchard of Swinstead Abbey.
Act IV: Scene iii
ARTHUR: The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:--
Good ground, be pitiful, and hurt me not!--
There's few or none do know me: if they did,
This ship-boy's semblance hath disguis'd me quite.
I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
As good to die and go, as die and stay.
{Leaps down}
O me! my uncle's spirit is in those stones:--
Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
{Dies}
